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William K. Gilders Associate Professor On Leave AY 2007-08 Office: S205 Callaway Memorial Center Mailing address: Department of Religion Emory University Mailstop: 1535/002/1AA 537 Kilgo Cir., Callaway S214 Atlanta, Georgia 30322   404-727-1826 (Office) 404-727-7597 (Fax) william.gilders@emory.edu (Email)

William K. Gilders, Associate Professor (2000). He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto, his M.A. from McMaster University, and his Ph.D. from Brown University. He teaches Hebrew Bible, with special emphases on ritual and sacrifice in ancient Israel, and on pre-modern Jewish biblical interpretation (midrash and medieval commentaries). His methodological interests include ritual theory, reader-oriented literary criticism, and sexuality and gender theory. He is the author of Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible: Meaning and Power (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).